What are the early symptoms of prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is a common malignant tumor that occurs frequently in men. In recent years, the incidence of prostate cancer has increased year by year. This is mainly because there are many ways to detect prostate cancer, but its early local symptoms are not obvious, so people often ignore the examination. By the time it is discovered, it is often in the middle or late stages, and it is very easy to miss the best treatment period for surgery.

So, what are the symptoms of prostate cancer that we need to pay attention to?

The most typical symptom of prostate cancer is difficulty urinating. The local tumor of the prostate progressively enlarges and compresses the prostatic urethra it surrounds, which may cause urination disorder, manifested as progressive dysuria such as thinning of urine stream, deflected urine stream, bifurcated urine stream or prolonged urination, frequent urination, urgency, pain when urinating, a feeling of incomplete urination, etc. In severe cases, urine dripping and urine retention may occur.

For advanced prostate cancer, symptoms such as fatigue, weight loss, and body pain may occur. Because the pain seriously affects diet, sleep, and mental state, after long-term torture, the whole body condition becomes weaker and weaker, and anemia progresses, and eventually the whole body fails and cachexia occurs.

It should be particularly emphasized that the urination disorder caused by prostate cancer is similar to the symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia, which is easy to misdiagnose and miss, delaying the early diagnosis and treatment of the disease. If any abnormal situation occurs, you should go to the hospital for examination in time. In order to make an early and clear diagnosis, you can use prostate biopsy or pathological examination of prostatectomy specimens.